officialLanguage

P236
predicate

Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

All labels observed (178)

Label Occurrences
officialLanguage canonical 23,795
hasOfficialLanguage 16,380
languageOfAdministration 2,109

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: officialLanguage
Generated description
Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

Sample triples (46,259)

Subject Object
Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation)
surface form: Confoederatio Helvetica
Italian
Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation)
surface form: Confoederatio Helvetica
Romansh language
surface form: Romansh
Magangué, Bolívar, Colombia
surface form: Magangué
Spanish
Koppl, Salzburg, Austria
surface form: Koppl
German
Penghu County Government Mandarin Chinese
Kharagpur Bengali
Kharagpur English
Kurrajong English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sal (Cape Verde) Portuguese
Kuhmo Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Arrondissement of Antwerp Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Berchem Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Berendrecht-Zandvliet-Lillo Dutch
Merksem Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Virgin Islands Port Authority English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lenggries German
Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
surface form: Longueuil
French
Skye English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yiyang Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Guimarães Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Bekasi Indonesian
Ouder-Amstel Dutch
Elizabethtown-Kitley English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Front of Yonge English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Leeds—Grenville English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Guía de Isora Spanish
Icod de los Vinos Spanish
Tacoronte Spanish
Svobodno tržaško ozemlje Italian
Svobodno tržaško ozemlje Slovene
Svobodno tržaško ozemlje Croatian
Governor of the Free Territory of Trieste Italian
Governor of the Free Territory of Trieste Slovene
Diez de Octubre Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
American Zone of Occupied Germany German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tarkhan dynasty Persian via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Amini Island group (administrative subdivision of Lakshadweep)
surface form: Amini Island group
Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Amini Island group (administrative subdivision of Lakshadweep)
surface form: Amini Island group
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spanish
Adeje Spanish
Andhra Pradesh High Court English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Andhra Pradesh High Court Telugu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kalpeni village Malayalam
Kalpeni village English
Tilakkam Hindi via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfGoverningCountry"
Tilakkam English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfGoverningCountry"
Chaparral Spanish
Cáqueza Municipality Spanish
Capelle aan den IJssel Dutch
State of Mississippi English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"